Quotes March 25, 2021

It’s not what you like but what you are like that’s important.
Nick Hornby,
writer, screenwriter
 
 
 
 
There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones.
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
James A. Michener,
writer, Pulitzer Prize winner
 
 
 
 
If you’re not out there taking some risks, if you’re just coasting along with your wins, then you’re not really trying.
Ron Howard,
actor, filmmaker
 
 
 
 
However long we have to live, there are never enough springs.
P.D. James,
writer
 
 
 
 
Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf,
24th president of Liberia, first female head of state in Africa, Nobel Peace Prize recipient
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
Mankind will endure when the world appreciates the logic of diversity.
Indira Gandhi,
first female prime minister of India
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
I always write in pencil, so I can erase.
Elsa Peretti,
jewelry designer, model
1940-2021
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Nadine Gordimer,
writer, activist, Nobel Prize winner
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
The ability to change things is a powerful incentive.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,
economist, international development expert, first female director-general of the World Trade Organization
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf,
24th president of Liberia, first female head of state in Africa, Nobel Peace Prize recipient
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
I’ve always believed that I could do whatever I set my mind to do.
Alice Coachman,
high jumper, first Black woman to win an Olympic gold medal
March is Women’s History Month
 
 
 
 
If you can control your mind you can control your life.
Unknown